Nicholas Lee via smartos-discuss wrote:
On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 7:30 AM, Nahum Shalman via smartos-discuss
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On 06/11/2014 02:55 PM, Alain O'Dea via smartos-discuss wrote:
It is probably possible, but with sharp edges.
The edges are very sharp, even in the simple case.
Having just done it last week I would summarize with:
If you have to ask how to do it, you shouldn't.
-Nahum
This is on aspect of smartos that would be nice to have a better
system. They are talking about a more LTS-style arrangement, which
would be good.
Being forced to rebuild a zone if you wish to upgrade to the latest
quarter could be fine many cases - simple one application servers -
but on the flip side likely to be painful in more complex situations -
say when manual configuration is required.
In part I think the difficult because the zones lofs mount in file
from the GZ into /usr. There may be some technical reasons for this,
but personally I think that storage is cheap so it shouldn't have to
be done that way.
That's one reason Solaris 11 ditched sparse zones. I for one prefer
whole root (and now kernel) to sparse zones, but I guess SmartOS is
designed for Joyent's business model. It's a pity Oracle's kernel zones
are closed source ;(
--
Ian.
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